1974 Campeonato Profesional

Campeonato Profesional

Season	1974
Champions	Deportivo Cali (5th title)
Matches	361
Goals	835 (2.31 per match)
Top goalscorer	Víctor Ephanor (33)
← 1973 1975 →

The 1974 Campeonato Profesional was the twenty-seventh season of Colombia's top-flight football league. Deportivo Cali won the league for the fifth time after winning the Hexagonal final.

Teams

Team	City	Stadium
América	Cali	Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Atlético Bucaramanga	Bucaramanga	Alfonso López
Atlético Nacional	Medellín	Atanasio Girardot
Cúcuta Deportivo	Cúcuta	General Santander
Deportes Quindío	Armenia	San José de Armenia
Deportes Tolima	Ibagué	Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
Deportivo Cali	Cali	Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Deportivo Pereira	Pereira	Hernán Ramírez Villegas
Independiente Medellín	Medellín	Atanasio Girardot
Junior	Barranquilla	Romelio Martínez
Millonarios	Bogotá	El Campín
Once Caldas	Manizales	Palogrande
Santa Fe	Bogotá	El Campín
Unión Magdalena	Santa Marta	Eduardo Santos

Opening Tournament

Standings

Pos.	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Qualification
1	Nacional	37	26	15	7	4	38	22	16	Group A, final hexagonal and tiebreaker
2	Cali	37	26	14	9	3	38	19	19
3	Millonarios	33	26	15	3	8	38	21	17	Group A
4	Junior	33	26	12	9	5	27	18	9
5	Medellín	30	26	11	8	7	32	22	10
6	Santa Fe	30	26	11	8	7	38	33	5
7	América	29	26	9	11	6	27	24	3
8	Cúcuta	22	26	6	10	10	19	26	-7	Group B
9	Caldas	21	26	8	5	13	31	41	-10
10	Quindío	21	26	6	9	11	27	35	-8
11	Bucaramanga	21	26	5	11	10	20	35	-15
12	Pereira	19	26	7	5	14	21	28	-7
13	Magdalena	17	26	5	7	14	18	34	-16
14	Tolima	14	26	1	12	13	18	34	-16

Results

Home\Away	AME	BUC	CAL	CUC	JUN	MAG	DIM	MIL	NAC	ONC	PER	QUI	SFE	TOL
América	—	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–0	0–2	2–0
Bucaramanga	1–1	—	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–4	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–2
Cali	2–2	5–1	—	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	3–2	2–0	4–1	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–0
Cúcuta	0–0	1–0	0–0	—	0–0	3–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	4–1	0–2	1–1	2–1	2–1
Junior	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	—	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	4–2
Magdalena	0–2	2–3	0–1	1–0	0–0	—	2–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	2–0
Medellín	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	3–1	—	2–1	0–3	1–0	3–0	4–1	3–1	2–1
Millonarios	4–0	1–1	0–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	—	3–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–0
Nacional	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	—	2–1	1–0	2–2	2–2	2–1
Caldas	2–2	2–1	0–2	3–1	1–2	3–0	1–1	1–2	2–4	—	1–0	2–0	2–3	1–1
Pereira	0–1	4–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–3	1–2	1–0	—	3–2	0–1	0–0
Quindío	0–0	1–2	0–0	2–2	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	—	1–1	2–0
Santa Fe	1–0	2–1	3–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–2	1–2	3–2	2–3	—	0–0
Tolima	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–3	0–2	0–1	2–0	2–2	2–2	—

Closing Tournament

Each of the teams in Groups A and B played 21 matchdays: the first 7 corresponded to the first round, with 6 matches against all the opponents in their group plus one intergroup match to balance the calendar of the odd groups; the next 7 matchdays were played against the teams from the other group; and the last 7 corresponded to the return legs of the first 7.

Group A standings

Pos.	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Qualification
1	Cali	30	21	11	8	2	29	13	16	Hexagonal Final
2	América	27	21	10	7	4	22	16	6
3	Millonarios	26	21	9	8	4	26	14	12
4	Santa Fe	24	21	10	4	7	27	21	6
5	Nacional	24	21	8	8	5	28	16	12
6	Junior	22	21	8	6	7	26	24	2
7	Medellín	18	21	5	8	8	23	29	-6

Group B standings

Pos.	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Qualification
1	Pereira	25	21	10	5	6	21	16	5	Hexagonal Final
2	Quindío	21	21	9	3	9	30	27	3
3	Tolima	21	21	9	3	9	26	29	-3
4	Bucaramanga	18	21	6	6	9	22	23	-1
5	Cúcuta	17	21	5	7	9	23	31	-8
6	Caldas	12	21	4	4	13	16	36	-20
7	Magdalena	9	21	2	5	14	16	40	-24

Results

Home\Away	AME	BUC	CAL	CUC	JUN	MAG	DIM	MIL	NAC	ONC	PER	QUI	SFE	TOL
América	—	1–1	1–1	3–1	1–1		1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0		0–0	0–3	3–2
Bucaramanga	0–1	—		1–1		0–0	3–0			4–0	1–0	2–0	1–3	1–1
0–0
Cali	0–1	1–0	—	1–0	3–3		2–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	3–0	3–0
Cúcuta		5–2	0–1	—	1–0	1–1		0–0		2–1	1–0	1–0		0–3
		1–2
Junior	0–2	0–2	0–1		—	2–2	1–0	0–0	1–0		2–0		2–2	3–1
				2–1
Magdalena	1–2	0–1	1–1	3–1	0–2	—			0–0	3–0	1–3	0–6		1–2
Medellín	1–2		2–2	3–1	1–1	2–0	—	1–1	1–1		1–2	2–0	1–0	2–1
Millonarios	1–0	2–1	0–1		2–1	6–0	0–0	—	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–1	0–1
Nacional	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	0–1		1–1	2–0	—	3–0		4–1	2–2	2–0
Caldas		2–0		1–1	2–3	1–0	2–2	1–2		—	2–1	2–0		1–1
							1–3
Pereira	1–0	0–0		1–1		1–0			2–1	0–0	—	1–1	1–0	3–0
											1–0
Quindío		2–1		3–3	2–1	4–1	4–1			3–0	0–1	—	2–0	3–0
						2–0
Santa Fe	0–0		1–2	2–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	3–1		—	1–3
Tolima		2–1	1–0	1–1		3–0		1–2	0–4	1–0	0–1	1–0		—
								2–0

Qualification to the final hexagonal

Pos.	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Qualification
1	Cali	67	47	25	17	5	67	32	35	Classified by the opening tournament and by group B
2	Nacional	61	47	23	15	9	66	38	28	Classified by the opening tournament
3	Millonarios	59	47	24	11	12	64	35	29	Final Hexagonal
4	América	56	47	19	18	10	49	40	9
5	Junior	55	47	20	15	12	53	42	11
6	Santa Fe	54	47	21	12	14	65	54	11
7	Medellín	48	47	16	16	15	55	51	4
8	Pereira	44	47	17	10	20	42	44	-2	Classified by group B
9	Quindío	42	47	15	12	20	57	62	-5
10	Cúcuta	39	47	11	17	19	42	57	-15
11	Bucaramanga	39	47	11	17	19	42	58	-16
12	Tolima	35	47	10	15	22	44	63	-19
13	Caldas	33	47	12	9	26	47	77	-30
14	Magdalena	26	47	7	12	28	34	74	-40

Hexagonal Final

Standings

Pos.	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Qualification
1	Cali	13	10	5	3	2	12	10	2	Champion and Copa Libertadores
2	Nacional	11	10	3	5	2	18	15	3	Runner-up and Copa Libertadores
3	Pereira	10	10	2	6	2	19	16	3
4	Millonarios	9	10	3	3	4	13	14	-1
5	Junior	9	10	3	3	4	19	23	-4
6	América	8	10	2	4	4	15	18	-3

First round results

Matchday 01 (November 24/1974) América 2–1 Nacional Junior 1–0 Millonarios Pereira 2–2 Cali	Matchday 02 (November 27/1974) Millonarios 3–1 América Nacional 1–0 Pereira Cali 2–1 Junior
Matchday 03 (December 01/1974) Junior 3–3 Nacional Millonarios 0–1 Cali América 2–2 Pereira	Matchday 04 (December 04/1974) Nacional 0–1 Millonarios Pereira 1–1 Junior América 0–0 Cali
Matchday 05 (December 06/1974) Junior 3–2 América Millonarios 1–1 Pereira Cali 2–2 Nacional

Second round results

Matchday 06 (December 08/1974) Millonarios 4–2 Junior Nacional 1–1 América Cali 1–0 Pereira	Matchday 07 (December 11/1974) Junior 2–1 Cali América 0–0 Millonarios Pereira 2–2 Nacional
Matchday 08 (December 15/1974) Cali 2–1 Millonarios Nacional 4–2 Junior Pereira 5–3 América	Matchday 09 (December 19/1974) Junior 2–2 Pereira Millonarios 2–2 Nacional Cali(C) 1–0 América
Matchday 10 (December 22/1974) Pereira 4–1 Millonarios América 4–2 Junior Nacional 2–0 Cali

1974 Campeonato Profesional champion
Deportivo Cali 5th title

External links

• Dimayor's official website (in Spanish)